Chapter five looks at choosing a care provider, benefits of creating a birth plan, what to
expect during your prenatal visits, fetal testing and options for childbirth education.
However, we do believe that birth is a very intimate event and you will be spending many hours with your healthcare
providers during prenatal visits, the birth, and postpartum visits.
Your health care provider might evaluate your baby's
position during prenatal visits to see if she's begun pointing her head down in preparation for birth.
Our study results demonstrate that physicians are spending less time than
midwives during prenatal visits, and that reduced time during prenatal appointments is associated with lower autonomy scores.
It's usually done with an electronic fetal monitor or a handheld Doppler device like the one your caregiver used to listen to your
baby during your prenatal visits.
Research done in the US shows that information about breastfeeding is rarely provided by a women's
obstetricians during their prenatal visits and some health professionals incorrectly believe that commercially prepared formula is nutritionally equivalent to breast milk.
Obesity in pregnancy may result in a greater use of inpatient and outpatient health care services, increased length of hospital stays for delivery, greater use of physician services, and decreased use of services by nurse practitioners and physician
assistants during prenatal visits.
However, if you can't wait up to the 20th week to listen to your baby's heartbeat, you can use a foetal Doppler as early as the 12th week to listen to your baby's
heartbeat during your prenatal visits.
In our work, we found that the majority of women surveyed in this study did not receive breastfeeding
counselling during the prenatal visit (83.4 %), and that most of them were unable to breastfeed in the delivery room (88.6 %), which supports the results that 93.2 % of women were not able to breastfeed their babies until after the first hour after delivery despite the nutritional importance of colostrum.
Doulas work diligently with
you during prenatal visits to help you feel your power as medical consumers so that you and your partner (s) know how to advocate for yourselves when decisions need to made about your care.
During our prenatal visits, Christi was very flexible and taught us many comfort and labor inducing techniques that were so useful before and during labor.
During each prenatal visit we discuss, questions, concerns, and issues appropriate to the current gestation of pregnancy.
During prenatal visits, we talked about our hopes for the birth.
During prenatal visits, your doctor will check your blood pressure, test your urine for protein and sugar, and test your blood glucose levels.
Pain management is something Midwives will carefully discuss with
you during prenatal visits, so you can fully understand all of your options before labour.
During prenatal visits, it should have...